When the Gittens children were young, they lived in Trinidad. When Tyra was middle school age, the family moved to Nashville — the father is a famed name in Trinidad music circles, and he got work in the States as a gospel singer and music producer. Debra opened a cleaning business, Sterling Clean.
Debra still has many of the same clients from when the business opened 20 years ago, and here’s why — if the mantle needs dusting, the rule is that all the objects need to picked up, not just dusted around. Why?
Excellence in all things.
Because this is how we change the world.
In the choices we make.
Grant said, referring to Debra Gittens, “We are both dynamic women who want the world to be different because we are in it.”
“I wanted,” Debra said, “to model a standard of excellence for our children when they worked at our business. Including cleaning toilets.”
“The things I learned from working with my parents — the kind of integrity to do that job,” Tyra Gittens said. “It’s amazing. My mom is a humble woman. By meeting my mom, you would never know. She is very educated.
“Still to this day,” she said, “I would drop anything for my family. My parents are my world. My family is my world.”
When he was younger, Tyra Gittens’ father had a thing for track. When it turned out that his daughters did, too, they could — and would — spend hours together just having fun, doing drills, running around.
Especially Tyra — her family nickname as a little girl was Squirrel. (And maybe still with her father.) After Scrat, the saber-tooth squirrel from the movie Ice Age.
“I had a passion for track,” Tyra said. “All the other stuff, I was maybe good at it. I had a passion for track.”
“We have a sign on our street that says, ‘Congratulations, Tyra Gittens, Olympian 2021,” Debra said. “And people are coming up to us and saying, ‘Is that the girl who used to run up and down the street?’ They remember her running up and down the street with her dad.”
In high school, she set all kinds of records. Same at Texas A&M.
Truth be told, she might be better at the heptathlon — the multi-event discipline — than the long jump.
But it was in the long jump that Tyra Gittens qualified for the Olympics, and here in Tokyo she made the final.
Late Tuesday, reflecting on her 10th place finish, she said, “I wish it could have gone better. But everything happens for a reason.
She explained that out by the runway she felt like she did when she was a freshman at A&M. “I didn’t have the experience all the seniors and juniors had.
“It was an amazing experience. I’m glad I have an Olympic final under my belt.”
She said she had already been in touch — of course — with everyone back home, adding, “Everyone loves their family. Not everyone can have the kind of connections I have with my family.
“I’m sad,” she said. “But I’m not disappointed.”
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